Bonus
This essay instructs “do not blush” after reading the phrase “Chloe liked Olivia” from the imaginary novel Life’s Adventure. For 10 points each,
[10m] Name this Virginia Woolf essay that also contains the story of Judith Shakespeare to illustrate the challenges women writers have faced. In this essay, Woolf argues that women need money and the title construct to write.
ANSWER: A Room of One’s Own
[10h] Before reading “Chloe liked Olivia,” Woolf references the obscenity trial of The Well of Loneliness, a novel by this pioneering lesbian author about ambulance driver Stephen Gordon.
ANSWER: Radclyffe Hall [or Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall]
[10e] In A Room of One’s Own, the author of Life’s Adventure has this first name, which Woolf tells the reader to call her by three different times. An author with this first name wrote Frankenstein.
ANSWER: Mary [accept Mary Shelley or Mary Seton or Mary Beton or Mary Carmichael]
<Editors, British Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 125 | 16.08 | 99% | 57% | 5% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 43% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 89% | 67% | 22% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 12 | 18.33 | 100% | 75% | 8% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 44% | 11% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 11 | 15.45 | 100% | 55% | 0% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 88% | 13% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 13 | 17.69 | 100% | 69% | 8% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |